Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

Michelle [ Pfeiffer] was perfect as Miss Baltimore Crabs.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.

'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

My favorite dark comedy, which is also one of my favorite films of all time, is 'After Hours.' I've seen 'After Hours' as much as almost any film I've ever seen in my life; I've watched it dozens of times, and I still watch it once a year. I still get a thrill out of it every time I see it.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I showed them the infamous tongue scene, one of the female crew members said, 'I hate when a guy does that.'

Oh my God. Brian De Palma. I love him.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.

Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

Sharan is a very talented director, well versed with his craft.